What do we need to listen music?

Actually, almost nothing.

If we are in good phisical conditions, if we have a music player, it's enough to enjoy this pleasure of listening music, in order to feel a organized group of sounds touching us.


But there are limitations in this process. Seems like we have a kind of lack of specific knowledge, talent or gift, or, in other words, maybe we have not enough patience to absorve new sequences of sounds, perhaps, for exemple, the refined Jazz, or some kind of improvisation.  

This could be resolved by a sort of training, learning, ie, education.

It's quite absurd when they say that only 3% of the Americans are listening to Jazz. What's is going wrong? Lack of quality of the American Jazz. No renovation in the Jazz scene. Lack of talent of the interpreters. I don't thing so.

Part of the problem probaly is related with competition and lack of musical education.

We will treat this particular question in a next post.

That's it folks    

We are what we hear?

I don't think so. But we can be what we heard in the past, or what we have heard throughout our lives. According to Laurens Rademakers, from Brussels - Belgium (see: http://www.ted.com/profiles/114581):

"This is a profound mystery which I cannot begin to ponder. Perhaps you can help?

Think of it: technically speaking, music is just a collection of sounds interspersed by silence.

But every human being knows of pieces of music that really "touch" him or her emotionally. These emotions can be very strong, and transport you to another "place".

How is it possible that a mere collection of sounds gets associated in our brain with memories, experiences, emotions, stories, images, feelings...? Why can we even cry when hearing a particular piece of music or even a fleeting, short succession of a few notes?"